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Quotes About Fate

Maybe you should stay. You've found where you belong. Most people never get that lucky their whole lives.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Dead people don't bleed for long.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Our destiny is written for us.
~ Jerome Hines
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Randomness, luck, chance, fate. This is modern man's answer to the age-old question, "Why?
~ Jerry Bridges
God not only determines who governs, He also rules in the decisions that they make. Proverbs 16:33 says, "The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD
~ Jerry Bridges
the beginning, directs and orchestrates millions of events and circumstances every day.
~ Jerry Bridges
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
~ Jerry Garcia
As far as I could tell, life was nothing but a forced march down a mined highway. Even if you did everything you were supposed to do, sooner of later if was your turn to step on a claymore.
~ Jerry Stahl
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.
~ Jess M. Brallier
Everything is an accident.
~ Jess Walters
These things have happened so often that it becomes clear: a man like this did not die because of what he did but because of what he was. We are the ones who have the privilege of having things happen to us because of what we do. Not everyone is so lucky.
~ Jesse Ball
Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep — and anywhere else it is needed.
~ Jessi Lane Adams
Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.
~ Jessica Brody
Because I knew that however perfect Ordinary Guy was on paper, I'd already met the perfect man for me, and he wasn't ordinary at all.
~ Jessica Hart
It was always you. I thought it was someone else, but it was you. You were the person that I felt.
~ Jessica Park
There's no such thing as coincidence ... only convenience.
~ Jessica Wawoe
Life is a series of random collisions.
~ Jessica Zafra
We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.
~ Jessica Zafra
Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the "higher power" of nature.
~ Erich Fromm
Sólo existe certeza con respecto al pasado, y con respecto al futuro, la certeza de la muerte.
~ Erich Fromm
The courage of the authoritarian character is essentially a courage to suffer what fate or its personal representative or "leader" may have destined him for. To suffer without complaining is his highest virtue—not the courage of trying to end suffering or at least to diminish it. Not to change fate, but to submit to it, is the heroism of the authoritarian character.
~ Erich Fromm
When man is born, the human race as well as the individual, he is thrown out of a situation which was definite, as definite as the instincts, into a situation which is indefinite, uncertain and open. There is certainty only about the past—and about the future only as far as that it is death.
~ Erich Fromm
Fate may be rationalized philosophically as natural law or as destiny of man, religiously as the will of the Lord, ethically as duty - for the authoritarian character it is always a higher power outside the individual, towards which the individual can do nothing but submit. The authoritarian character worships the past. What has been, will eternally be. To wish or to work for something that has not yet been before is crime or madness.
~ Erich Fromm